Fragmentary antiquities were not to the sixteenth-century collectors' taste. Caccini produced a head for an antique torso, and a further, crouching figure to produce the Bacchus and Ampelos in the Uffizi, which was once attributed to Michelangelo. He restored a fragmentary Apollo Sauroctonos as an Apollo with the Lyre (Uffizi). He could also improvise on antique themes: The biographer of artists Rafaello Borghini reported in 1730 that "In truth he was highly skilled in diligently putting together pieces, and counterfeiting, the Antique. His garden sculptures produced the required bold silhouttes and copious attributes that the genre requires.
As an architect, his notable work is the portico of the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (1601).
Selected works
- Figure of S.Giovanni Gualberto, Badia di Passignano, Val di Pesa, 1580
- Bust of Christ, c. 1595 (Rijksmuseum)
- Temperance (Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Charles V crowned by Clement VII, Salone del Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
- Ciborium in Santo Spirito, Florence.
- Among numerous allegorical statues in the Boboli Gardens, Florence:
- Seasons, four figures in the Boboli Gardens, Florence
- Youthful Jupiter (attributed), Boboli Gardens.
- Seasons, two figures for the Ponte Santa Trinita, Florence
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